Panicky_Patzer3d ago
John Carlos Baez

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116702037049926326

The rebellions continue!

The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read!

And they did this with the help of Open Library for Humanities: an organization that coordinates 35 journals like this, and develops software to make it easy for you to set up your own.

The executive director, Caroline Edwards, says:

“It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At Open Library for Humanities we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature."

Jun 6 at 8:31amWeb
Show threadEliza3d ago
@johncarlosbaez i am so happy to read this. publishing has been a bane for research for so long its high time something is changing!
Show threadKerplunk3d ago

@johncarlosbaez

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Show threadoutis3d ago
@Kerplunk @johncarlosbaez

@johncarlosbaez, thank you for sharing. I agree with you, this is joyfull!

Much has been said about "the tragedy of the commons", but all of us are experiencing -either as employees or as customers- "the tragedy of the capital": #financialization = #enshitification

@Kerplunk, did you try switching java off?

Remaining pure would render us isolated.
Show threadCanageek3d ago
@johncarlosbaez I am really worried about how these journals will be archived in a hundred years. They don't have an income stream to pay for hosting, and libraries don't have a shelf of copies bound into big volumes anymore
Show threadJohn Carlos Baez2d ago

@Canageek - That's an important issue. I checked it out, and Open Library for the Humanities says

"Journal content is archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. To secure permanency of all publications, OLH journals utilise CLOCKSS , and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration. Where relevant, we automatically archive journal content with subject specific archives."

CLOCKSS:
https://clockss.org/about/how-clockss-works/

LOCKSS:
https://www.lockss.org/use-lockss/how-lockss-works

Show threadCanageek2d ago
@johncarlosbaez Oh good, that seems to be a pretty good system in a technical level, so as long as they have solid funding it should be good
Show threadPete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️3d ago

@johncarlosbaez

This is the Way